Code: 11474
Superb and very well patinated Arts & Crafts copper and enamelled stones deep dish; c1902.
By the very talented and then student and mainly jewellery designer, Mabel Bendall (see image of the back).
She later (in 1910 and 1911) showed many jewellery pieces at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society exhibitions in London.
Approx 11" diameter and 1.5" deep.
From the Artists Biographies website:
Mabel Emmeline Bendall (1883-1963) was a "jewellery designer and metal worker born in Erdington, Birmingham the daughter of a flour salesman.
She was almost certainly art educated at Birmingham School of Art which had a flourishing jewellery design facility.
Bendall was a member of the Brighton Guild of Applied Art and exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
She died in a Birmingham hospital under her married name of Smith having married Arthur Hudston Smith in 1916"
